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Thread #136743   Message #3127179
Posted By: Jack Campin
02-Apr-11 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: Tune req: Saltarello - Medieval dance/folk
Subject: RE: Tune req: Saltarello - Medieval dance/folk
Munrow's drummer is doing what James Blades says is the basic exercise you need to do to get started playing mediaeval percussion - crotchet-quaver-quaver, no variation, fixed tempo, keep it going for at least half an hour straight. But I think even Blades would have agreed you oughta go somewhere beyond that in performance, and that tune isn't even in a simple modal rhythm.

I didn't like Eclipse's darbuka very much. It wasn't even used in much of the Middle East at the period this music was written - a frame drum (with or without jingles) would have been better.